Island



(No Model.) I A. O. WOODWORTH. GAR FENDER.

No. 550,928, Patented Dec. 3, 1895.

Fig-Q 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT G. \VOODW ORTH, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 550,928, dated December 3, 1895.

Application filed December 6, 1894:. Serial No. 531,011. (No modeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT O. WooDWoRTH, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car- Fenders; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in car-fenders, and particularly to cushion devices therefor. V

The object of the invention is to provide car-fenders which are permanently attached to cars with improved cushion devices which are adapted to be supported on the fender. 1

The invention consists in such peculiar features of construction and combination of parts as may hereinafter be more fully described, and pointed out in the claim;

Figure 1 represents a side view of portions of a car provided with a fender, showing the improved cushion in combination therewith. Fig. 2 represents an end view of the cushion. Fig. 8 represents a front elevation of the same, partially broken away at one end, Fig. trepresenting a sectional view of the car-dasher with one of the hooks for supporting the cushion, the supporting-bar of the cushion being shown in section.

Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In carrying my invention into practice it is my design to provide a device in the nature of a cushion which may be removably secured in a position to present a yielding barrier against which a person falling on the carfender may strike without injury, By the novel construction of the cushion I provide a device which can be readily detached and removed from one end of a car to the other, by

i this means allowing the folding up of the fender against the car-dasher.

In the drawings, 5 indicates the platform of a car, and 6 the dasher thereof. From the platform extend arms, as '7, between which is pivotally mounted the fender 8, which is adapted to be turned upward against the cardasher. On the outer surface of the dasher are secured hooks, as 9, for engaging and supporting the cushion.

The cushion device consists of a series of curved strips 10 10,formed of spring metal and secured at their lower ends to the bar 11, lying in the plane of the chord of the arc, as represented by the cross-strips 12 12. At the upper ends the strips 10 10 and 12 12 are bent upward out of said plane and secured to the supporting-bar 13, which, when the cushion device is secured to the dasher, engages in the hooks 9, its flexibility allowing it to conform to the curve of the dasher and from which this bar may be readily withdrawn. The strips 10 10 are further braced and strengthened by the longitudinal strip 14.

The inclination of the supporting-bar 13 from the side arms 12 12 is such that when the bar 13 is secured in the hooks 9 9 the cushion device will assume an inclined position, with its lower bar 11 resting on the fender.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with the dasher 6 and hooks, as 99, secured thereto, of a cushiondevice consisting of the curved strips 10-10 having their lower ends bent into the plane of the chord of their circle and their upper ends bent at angles beyond said plane, the bar 11 secured to the lower ends, the bar 13 secured to the upper vertical ends of said curved strips and adapted to be engaged and supported by the hooks 9=9, the bracing-bar 14: secured to the central curved portions of the strips, and the crossstrips 1212 connecting the ends of the bars 11 and 13 and forming spring chords.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ALBERT O. WOODWORTH. WVitnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, J1-., M. F. BLIGH. 

